MeterUsage - AWS Marketplace

MeterUsage

As a seller, your software hosted in the buyer's AWS account uses this API action to emit metering records directly to AWS Marketplace. You must use the following buyer AWS account credentials to sign the API request.

  • For Amazon EC2 deployments, your software must use the IAM role for Amazon EC2 to sign the API call for MeterUsage API operation.

  • For Amazon EKS deployments, your software must use IAM roles for service accounts (IRSA) to sign the API call for the MeterUsage API operation. Using EKS Pod Identity, the node role, or long-term access keys is not supported.

  • For Amazon ECS deployments, your software must use Amazon ECS task IAM role to sign the API call for the MeterUsage API operation. Using the node role or long-term access keys are not supported.

  • For Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime deployments, your software must use the AgentCore Runtime execution role to sign the API call for the MeterUsage API operation. Long-term access keys are not supported.

The handling of MeterUsage requests varies between Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime and non-Amazon Bedrock AgentCore deployments.

  • For non-Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime deployments, you can only report usage once per hour for each dimension. For AMI-based products, this is per dimension and per EC2 instance. For container products, this is per dimension and per ECS task or EKS pod. You can't modify values after they're recorded. If you report usage before a current hour ends, you will be unable to report additional usage until the next hour begins. The Timestamp request parameter is rounded down to the hour and used to enforce this once-per-hour rule for idempotency. For requests that are identical after the Timestamp is rounded down, the API is idempotent and returns the metering record ID.

  • For Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime deployments, you can report usage multiple times per hour for the same dimension. You do not need to aggregate metering records by the hour. You must include an idempotency token in the ClientToken request parameter. If using an Amazon SDK or the AWS CLI, you must use the latest version which automatically includes an idempotency token in the ClientToken request parameter so that the request is processed successfully. The Timestamp request parameter is not rounded down to the hour and is not used for duplicate validation. Requests with duplicate Timestamps are aggregated as long as the ClientToken is unique.

If you submit records more than six hours after events occur, the records won't be accepted. The timestamp in your request determines when an event is recorded.

You can optionally include multiple usage allocations, to provide customers with usage data split into buckets by tags that you define or allow the customer to define.

For AWS Regions that support MeterUsage, see MeterUsage Region support for Amazon EC2 and MeterUsage Region support for Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS.

Request Syntax

{ "ClientToken": "string", "DryRun": boolean, "ProductCode": "string", "Timestamp": number, "UsageAllocations": [ { "AllocatedUsageQuantity": number, "Tags": [ { "Key": "string", "Value": "string" } ] } ], "UsageDimension": "string", "UsageQuantity": number }

Request Parameters

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

Note

In the following list, the required parameters are described first.

ProductCode

Product code is used to uniquely identify a product in AWS Marketplace. The product code should be the same as the one used during the publishing of a new product.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 255.

Pattern: ^[-a-zA-Z0-9/=:_.@]*$

Required: Yes

Timestamp

Timestamp, in UTC, for which the usage is being reported. Your application can meter usage for up to six hours in the past. Make sure the timestamp value is not before the start of the software usage.

Type: Timestamp

Required: Yes

UsageDimension

It will be one of the fcp dimension name provided during the publishing of the product.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 255.

Pattern: [\s\S]+

Required: Yes

ClientToken

Specifies a unique, case-sensitive identifier that you provide to ensure the idempotency of the request. This lets you safely retry the request without accidentally performing the same operation a second time. Passing the same value to a later call to an operation requires that you also pass the same value for all other parameters. We recommend that you use a UUID type of value.

If you don't provide this value, then AWS generates a random one for you.

If you retry the operation with the same ClientToken, but with different parameters, the retry fails with an IdempotencyConflictException error.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 64.

Required: No

DryRun

Checks whether you have the permissions required for the action, but does not make the request. If you have the permissions, the request returns DryRunOperation; otherwise, it returns UnauthorizedException. Defaults to false if not specified.

Type: Boolean

Required: No

UsageAllocations

The set of UsageAllocations to submit.

The sum of all UsageAllocation quantities must equal the UsageQuantity of the MeterUsage request, and each UsageAllocation must have a unique set of tags (include no tags).

Type: Array of UsageAllocation objects

Array Members: Minimum number of 1 item. Maximum number of 2500 items.

Required: No

UsageQuantity

Consumption value for the hour. Defaults to 0 if not specified.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 0. Maximum value of 2147483647.

Required: No

Response Syntax

{ "MeteringRecordId": "string" }

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

MeteringRecordId

Metering record id.

Type: String

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

CustomerNotEntitledException

Exception thrown when the customer does not have a valid subscription for the product.

HTTP Status Code: 400

DuplicateRequestException

A metering record has already been emitted by the same EC2 instance, ECS task, or EKS pod for the given {usageDimension, timestamp} with a different usageQuantity.

HTTP Status Code: 400

IdempotencyConflictException

The ClientToken is being used for multiple requests.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InternalServiceErrorException

An internal error has occurred. Retry your request. If the problem persists, post a message with details on the AWS forums.

HTTP Status Code: 500

InvalidEndpointRegionException

The endpoint being called is in a AWS Region different from your EC2 instance, ECS task, or EKS pod. The Region of the Metering Service endpoint and the AWS Region of the resource must match.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidProductCodeException

The product code passed does not match the product code used for publishing the product.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidTagException

The tag is invalid, or the number of tags is greater than 5.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidUsageAllocationsException

Sum of allocated usage quantities is not equal to the usage quantity.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidUsageDimensionException

The usage dimension does not match one of the UsageDimensions associated with products.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ThrottlingException

The calls to the API are throttled.

HTTP Status Code: 400

TimestampOutOfBoundsException

The timestamp value passed in the UsageRecord is out of allowed range.

For BatchMeterUsage, if any of the records are outside of the allowed range, the entire batch is not processed. You must remove invalid records and try again.

HTTP Status Code: 400

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following: